Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
by Frances Cairncross, Hamish McRae
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Using highly-readable, non-technical language, the authors, both professional economists, describe all the major global economic forces at work in the 1970s and forecast the kind of future which such forces are creating (and which has indeed been the case). Inflation and recession, an energy crisis, international monetary disorder and a food crisis in the developing world are all discussed.
Selling Out a Superpower
Where the U.S. Economy Went Wrong and How We Can Turn It Around
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In 1968, there were sixty-two lobbyists in Washington; today there are thirty-four thousand, outnumbering members of Congress and their staffers two to one. By 2008, these lobbyists were spending approximately $8.2 million for influence per day. Few, if any, of these lobbyists represent the majority...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
In the past, undersupply of public infrastructure was blamed for low productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s, while greater private sector participation was emphasized for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region before the Asian Economic Crisis in the 1990s.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Poland is one of Europe's economic out-performers. The country's history and geography encourage it to be in favour of deeper European integration. This book aims to contribute to discussions on the future shape of EMU and the next steps ahead.
Asian Financial Integration
Impacts of the Global Crisis and Options for Regional Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
In the wake of the global financial crisis, Asia is leading the global recovery with strong economic growth. However, this book argues that, in the coming years, the region will need to play a much more active role in shaping the future global financial system and, in turn, suggests policy strategies...
The Complementary Roots of Growth and Development
Comparative Analysis of the United States, South Korea, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models. To substantiate this argument, Akan utilizes case countries...
Gangster States
Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies.
Banking on Sterling
Britain's Independence from the Euro Zone
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Banking on Sterling: Britain's Independence from the Euro Zone, by Ophelia Eglene, provides an in-depth analysis of the British policy on the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) over the past twenty years. Eglene demonstrates how the Conservative government of John Major and the Labour government...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This volume appears at a time when there is tremendous interest in direct investment of one country in the industry of another. It brings together papers by leading economists from North America, Australia and Asia, and provides an excellent introduction to this currently important economic issue.
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by Lei Zou, Zhiping Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Silk Road was once the most important economic-cultural tie connecting the Eurasian countries before the rise of the West. In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the initiative to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, which is abbreviated...
Fragments of an Unfinished War
Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, in- dependence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing military pressure, the PRC's irredentist policy is premised on encouraging...
The Political Economy of Pacific Russia
Regional Developments in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This thought-provoking book, edited by Jing Huang and Alexander Korolev, redefines the complex political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region. Written by internationally recognized experts from Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, Norway and Singapore, it provides an in-depth analysis of...
New South African Review 2
New Paths, Old Compromises?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In this second volume of the New South African Review, the New Growth Path adopted by the South African government in 2010 provides the basis for a dialogue about whether ?decent work? is the best solution to South Africa?s problems of low economic growth and high unemployment. There are investigations...
The African-Asian Divide
Analyzing Institutions and Accumulation in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new...